The Villiers Vindicator was a fictional British strategic bomber developed and produced by Villiers during the Cold War. The aircraft was designed to carry nuclear weapons as part of the Royal Air Force's "V bomber" strategic deterrent force. It appeared in Ian Fleming's 1961 James Bond novel, Thunderball.
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- Like its real-world "V bomber" counterparts, the name of Fleming's fictional aircraft starts with the letter "V".
- For EON Productions' cinematic adaptation of Thunderball in 1965, a real-world V bomber was used instead of the Vindicator - the Avro Vulcan.
- Kevin McClory's updated adaptation of the novel, Never Say Never Again (1983), featured a Rockwell B-1A Lancer.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Fleming, Ian [1961] (2004). "Chapter 7: Fasten Your Lap-Strap", Thunderball (in En-UK). London: Penguin Classics, pp. 70-71. ISBN 9780141187594.